Mubarak could be jailed despite 'unstable' health

CAIRO: Egypt on Thursday mulled sending Hosni Mubarak to jail or to a prison hospital, as reports emerged the ousted president's health is "unstable" and a court ruled his name be removed from public places. Egypt's public prosecutor Abdel Magid Mahmud Mahmud has ordered a medical team to head to Sharm el-Sheikh where Mubarak is under arrest in hospital to "establish his latest health condition and the possibility of having him transferred to Tora prison or to the prison hospital," his office said. The prosecutor has also ordered that preparations be made at the hospital in southern Cairo's Tora prison. The medical team will head to Tora prison hospital "to evaluate the facilities and equipment and make the necessary preparations to have former president Hosni Mubarak moved there based on his medical condition," it said. Soon after the prosecutor's statement, Egypt's state...